Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Harry Bullis: the U.S. will have 220 million people, with plenty of jobs, a shorter work week -perhaps 35 hours-and average family income topping $10,000 yearly (nearly double current income). Food supplies will be reasonable and ample. Foods now canned or frozen will be preserved by harmless nuclear radiation, and home electronic ovens will cook meals in minutes instead of hours, but "men and women will still struggle for happiness, which will continue to lie within themselves...
...Manhattan awarded Journalist Quentin Reynolds $175,001 in a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Hearst lawyers took their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Their argument: what Pegler had written about Reynolds (TIME, May 24, 1954, et seq.) was "innocuous and susceptible of innocent and harmless interpretations...
Last week such tornado conditions prevailed in places across the U.S. from Amarillo, Texas, to Buffalo, N.Y. In three days, a record total of no tornadoes was reported in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Many were harmless, but one knocked a giant B-36 bomber out of the sky near Sterling, Texas, killing the 15-man crew. The worst killer slammed into Blackwell, Okla. and smashed across the Kansas line to Udall, 25 miles south of Wichita...
Italy's Presidents, like other European Presidents, are expected to deliver harmless inaugural speeches in favor of orderly government and sober living. But last week newly elected President Giovanni Gronchi, Catholic advocate of the "opening to the Left," startled Italy's assembled legislators by delivering a rousing political inaugural that plainly pleased the Communists more than his own party, the Christian Democrats...
Back in the days when such petty offenses as yawning in chapel brought students punishment, one could hardly expect the Faculty to look kindly on students' playing with pistols--loaded or not. Although the Harvard duel was a harmless one and actually amusing, the professors and tutors were irate. After "long and painful consideration" they solemnly admonished Foster, English, and the two benign seconds...